Cloud Storage Solutions
Optimize Your AWS Experience for Enterprise Workloads
NetApp industry-leading block, file, and object storage offers multiprotocol support for Windows, Linux, and Mac. Our enterprise solutions have the capabilities you need for migrating storage-heavy applications, databases, and AI/ML environments to the cloud.
NetApp industry-leading block, file, and object storage offers multiprotocol support for Windows, Linux, and Mac.
Our enterprise solutions have the capabilities you need for migrating storage-heavy applications, databases, and AI/ML environments to the cloud. With NetApp® ONTAP®, you can natively run cloud workloads or quickly lift and shift legacy apps into the AWS Cloud—all at optimized cost.
You don't need to refactor code or redesign processes. And you can use ONTAP as a self-managed solution or as a fully managed service.
It's a snap to extend and migrate to AWS, thanks to the familiar file and block storage workflows, orchestration, and data protection capabilities that you already use on premises. This consistency simplifies cloud adoption for your most demanding enterprise workloads.
Features and Benefits
The capabilities that set NetApp on AWS apart.
The Problem
Cloud Migration Challenges
Customers face a variety of challenges when considering a move to the cloud, ranging from storing sensitive data, compliance issues, and most importantly, the migration of Tier 1 workloads. Most organizations struggle to find cloud infrastructure, file services, and block storage solutions that meet their objectives for data protection, scalability, and resilience.
The State of Enterprise Application Migration
84%
Management of cloud spend is the top challenge for 84% of surveyed decision makers.
54%
54% of IT and business leaders cite application dependencies as a key concern during migration.
94%
94% report improved security after moving to the cloud.
5 Ways NetApp and AWS Support You
Get the best of both—NetApp + AWS
Run Windows, Linux, and Mac workloads with multiprotocol support for CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, NVMe/TCP, and S3 connectivity.
Continuous optimization
When you extend mission-critical applications from the premises to AWS, you retain the data efficiencies and optimizations found in the data center—they're readily available on AWS.
Durability and availability
You can meet uptime and availability SLAs with simple and fast replication across AWS Availability Zones and get highly durable daily backups that are incremental forever and block based.
Flexible data management
NetApp ONTAP enterprise-grade data services combine with the agility and scalability of AWS to provide consistency across the hybrid cloud. You get a unified data experience whether you use the self-managed NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP or the native AWS-managed service in Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP.
Robust set up
Manage and monitor your data with the combined capabilities of the AWS Management Console and NetApp Console. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is the only cloud service that supports both AWS and NetApp APIs for block and file workloads.
Competitive Edge
Supports your DevOps and application-driven infrastructures
- Increase DevTest agility with a cloud-native shared file system to shorten release cycles. Enable persistent data and state from containers and serverless functions like Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, and AWS Lambda.
- Enable availability across AWS Availability Zones.
- Provide DevOps with common storage to organize and share code and files securely.
Run multiple workloads on AWS
- Launch, run, and scale NFS and SMB shared file storage for data-intensive apps like SQL Server, AI, and CRM. Address storage-heavy workloads by connecting to Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Amazon WorkSpaces, and Amazon AppStream.
- Meet the scalability, elasticity, availability, and durability required for enterprises.
- Provision and optimize block-level storage for performance-intensive applications like databases and virtualization. Support high-performance workloads by connecting to Amazon EC2, VMware environments, and enterprise apps using iSCSI with Cloud Volumes ONTAP or Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP.
Lift and shift your enterprise workloads
- Migrate and build enterprise-scale architectures and hybrid cloud workloads. Support software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications with a multiprotocol file system. Optimize cost, time, and latency to streamline your migration without rearchitecting or sacrificing performance and reliability.
- Automate data replication and failover, simplifying shared storage to host your database.
- Easily migrate your Oracle, SQL Server, and SAP HANA database workloads to AWS. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is SAP-certified and can host database backups for protection during updates or for DevTest operations.
Get data protection for cloud workloads
- Get 3-2-1 data backup with incremental-forever, block-based backups. Take advantage of built-in storage efficiencies for cloud-based disaster recovery with drag-and-drop simplicity, nondisruptive testing, compliance, security, and data sovereignty features.
- Protect, repurpose, and easily manage your data by using NetApp Snapshot™ copies, rapid copies, and data synchronization.
- Create data copies on AWS, and then lower disaster recovery costs with cold-storage tiering to Amazon S3.
Unmatched Solutions for Your Enterprise Cloud
Simplify
Deploy, discover, manage, and optimize data and its infrastructure from the comfort of NetApp Console, a unified control plane delivering a simplified hybrid multicloud experience.
Protect
Meet uptime and availability SLAs with automatic NetApp SnapMirror® replications across AWS Availability Zones and restore instantly with zero-impact NetApp Snapshot copies. Gain durable, incremental-forever, block-based daily backups from NetApp Backup and Recovery.
Access
Extend on-premises data into AWS with SnapMirror or the NetApp Copy and Sync service. Speed up latency sensitive on-premises workloads by using NetApp FlexCache® to burst to AWS.
Govern
Use the compliance dashboard NetApp Data Classification to meet unstructured data standards and adhere to GDPR and other regulations by locating personally identifiable information (PII).
Monitor
Take advantage of NetApp Data Infrastructure Insights to see across the entire infrastructure (on premises to cloud) and identify apps that are poised to migrate to AWS.
Optimize
Optimize capacity resources with fully elastic storage tiering with NetApp Tiering to move cold data to Amazon S3.
Expert Guidance
Thrive with expert-led storage guidance
Get tailored advice on how NetApp on AWS fits your environment — from sizing and deployment to long-term optimization.
Technical Specifications
Exhaustive hardware and software metrics extracted directly from official documentation.
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Supported ProtocolsCIFS, NFS, iSCSI, NVMe/TCP, S3
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Supported Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
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AWS Compute ServicesAmazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, AWS Lambda, Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon AppStream
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AWS Storage TieringAmazon S3 (cold-storage tiering)
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AvailabilityReplication across AWS Availability Zones
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Management ConsolesAWS Management Console and NetApp Console
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API SupportAmazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP supports both AWS and NetApp APIs for block and file workloads
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Supported DatabasesOracle, SQL Server, SAP HANA
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CertificationsSAP-certified (Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP)
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Backup Strategy3-2-1 data backup with incremental-forever, block-based backups
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ReplicationNetApp SnapMirror® across AWS Availability Zones
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SnapshotsZero-impact NetApp Snapshot™ copies
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Backup and RecoveryNetApp Backup and Recovery — durable, incremental-forever, block-based daily backups
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Unified Control PlaneNetApp Console
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Data ExtensionSnapMirror or NetApp Copy and Sync service
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CachingNetApp FlexCache®
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Compliance DashboardNetApp Data Classification (GDPR, PII detection)
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MonitoringNetApp Data Infrastructure Insights
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Storage TieringNetApp Tiering (cold data to Amazon S3)
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Compliance LicensingNetApp SnapLock® licensing
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Starting PointNetApp Console, a unified control plane delivering a simplified hybrid multicloud experience for storage and data services across on-premises and AWS Cloud environments
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Service TypeNetApp Data Services
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Pricing ModelPay only for the resources you use. No minimum fees or setup charges. Pricing is quoted monthly; usage is prorated by the hour and billed for average usage over a month.
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Billable ComponentsSSD storage, SSD IOPS, capacity pool usage, throughput capacity, backups, and NetApp SnapLock® licensing
Compare NetApp on AWS Series
Select the right scale for your workload demands.
| Model Name | Max Capacity | Port Config | Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud Volumes ONTAP | Self-managed NetApp solution on AWS | CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, NVMe/TCP, S3 | Get Quote |
| Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP | Native AWS-managed service; SSD storage and capacity pool usage | CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, NVMe/TCP, S3 | Get Quote |
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